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12 March 2014

Ayn Rand is Nietzsche for the simpleminded, their pseudo-philosophical
justification of selfishness. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche himself is de rigueur for all quasi-intellectuals
and nerds with illusions of superiority. They see themselves as the Übermensch
and all those who pushed them down in grade school as the Untermensch. There is
an inherent fascism in Nietzsche's divvying-up of humanity into such
judgemental classifications, as well as in his allocation of morality only unto
himself. Likewise, despotism appears in his followers in their
inevitable assertions that only they have truly read him correctly ---
regardless of who 'they' are: Nazis, Poststructuralists, Nihilists, whatever.
Furthermore, this array of repulsive traits is what charms his adherents,
although they deny it, making them the strange attractors of fields of
hypocrisy. --- Mark Staff Brandl, 2014